 ... solutions to those come to by our friend. We are not pledging ourselves for the correctness of his opinions, which readers will please to consider are delivered dramatically, the writer being no more answerable for them, than for the sentiments uttered...  Complete Works - Pagina 248door William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1850 - 392 pagina’s
...see allusions to questions which, no doubt, have occupied and discomposed himself, and which he has answered by very different solutions to those come...logic at present has brought him, is one of general skepticism and sneering acquiescence in the world as it is ; or if you like so to call it, a belief... | |
 | 1851 - 658 pagina’s
...We are not pledging ourselves for the corruptness of hie (Pen's) opinions, which readers will pieuse to consider are delivered dramatically, the writer...progress the development of the mind of a worldly and selnsh, but not ungenerous or unkind, or truth-avoiding man. And it will be seen that the lamentable... | |
 | 1851 - 616 pagina’s
...answerable for them, than for the sentiments uttered by any other character of the story. Our endeavour is merely to follow out in its progress the development...seen that the lamentable stage to which his logic has at present brought him, ia one of general scepticism, and sneering acquiescence in the world as... | |
 | 1852 - 532 pagina’s
...omnibus rebus et quibusdam aliis ;" and those views, to quote the words of the volume, are views " of a worldly and selfish, but not ungenerous or unkind, or truth-avoiding man." Listen to the rebuke administered : — "And to what does this easy and sceptical life lead a man?... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 520 pagina’s
...answerable for them, than for the sentiments uttered by any other character of the story : our endeavour is merely to follow out, in its progress, the development...one of general scepticism and sneering acquiescence iu the world as it is ; or if you like so to call it, a belief qualified with scorn in all things extant.... | |
 | 1864 - 560 pagina’s
...spirit of the age. This he has depicted in the gentlest and saddest of all his books, Pendenuis: — "And it will be seen that the lamentable stage to which his logic at present has brought him" (Arthur Pendeunis), "is one of general scepticism and sneering acquiescence in the world as it is ;... | |
 | 1864 - 650 pagina’s
...he has depicted in the gentlest and saddest of all hie books, " Pendennis : " — " And it will bo seen that the lamentable stage to which his logic at present has brought him " (Arthur Pendennis) " ie one of general scepticism and sneering acquiescence in the world as it is... | |
 | John Brown - 1866 - 466 pagina’s
...spirit of the age. This he has depicted in the gentlest and saddest of all his books, Pendennis: — " And it will be seen that the lamentable stage to which his logic at present has brought him" (Arthur Pendennis) "is one of general scepticism and sneering acquiescence in the world as it is; or... | |
 | John Brown - 1866 - 454 pagina’s
...spirit of the age. This he has depicted in the gentlest and saddest of all his books, Pendennis : — " And it will be seen that the lamentable stage to which his logic at present has brought him" (Arthur Pendennis) "is one of general scepticism and sneering acquiescence in the world as it is ;... | |
 | John Brown - 1866 - 448 pagina’s
...spirit of the age. This he has depicted in the gentlest and saddest of all his books, Pendennis : — " And it will be seen that the lamentable stage to which his logic at present has brought him" (Arthur Pendennis) "is one of general scepticism and sneering acquiescence in the world as it is ;... | |
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